Howe v. West End Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four bills in equity, each filed April 5, 1894, by the owners of land abutting on Garden Street in Cambridge, to restrain the construction and operation of an overhead single trolley system of electric cars upon that street. The cases were heard together before Barker, J., who entered a decree in each case, denying the injunction prayed for, and dismissing the bill; and the plaintiffs appealed to the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. ,
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
These are suits in equity heard by a single justice, and the evidence was taken before a commissioner. The bill in each case was dismissed, and the plaintiffs appealed. The evidence is voluminous, but the facts generally are such as are commonly known wherever electric street railways are used. There is some evidence concerning the electrolytic action of the electric current on water and gas pipes in or near the street where the railway is located, and conflicting evidence concerning the dangerous character of the electric current used by the defendant. We have no doubt that the current used…
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